“Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”
-Ronald Reagan
Going through old photos this weekend and saw pics I took in 1962 in Berlin. Both sides of the then being built wall. As a 14 year old milbrat. What I saw convinced me that the socialist/commie way of life wasn’t for me. It was a four hour tour but very eye opening. I still have a map of Berlin laying out the sectors and showing barbed wire dividing and surrounding West Berlin. Scary stuff. Lots of folks have ZERO clue of the reality. They got no idea about oligarchs and brutal regimes.
Great quote from a great man. I fear that we are nearing the time when we will have to put our lives on the line to protect freedom. I hope and pray it’s not necessary.
I loved Reagan but I disagree with him on one point; He said (and I paraphrase) that ‘the left isn’t evil, it us just that what they think isn’t so’.
-I disagree. The left is evil. There is a spiritual element, and all you have to do is look at the results. And Marx supposedly worshiped Satan, and Communism abhors spirituality and religion.